It's a Diet not a Liveit

Playgirls,
The term DIET in our society, and especially women tends to bring the following words to mind:
Anger, frustration, self-denial, HUNGER, starvation, and finally REBOUND.
Although diet technically is simply a noun meant to label any food intake, in our society it typically means restricting one's food intake with the goal of losing weight.

Now there is NOTHING wrong with changing your food intake (ie SLIGHTLY lowering calories) to create change in your body. The PROBLEM is that most women start "living" their diets.

What a weight loss diet is not:

1. Meant to stay on for extended periods of time (quick way to eff up your metabolism)
2. Meant to be necessarily comfortable---no you should not encounter any HEALTH problems (please consult a doctor if you do), but you also may be slightly more hungry. TOUGH, its only for a short period...and SORRY there isn't any easy way to do it...if there was, everyone would be at their ideal weight.
   
3. Meant to allow you delicious foods and be a fun experience--if loads of crap equaled weight loss, well....think about it.
   

Losing weight is meant for a SEASON of your life. That SEASON is until you reach your HEALTHY ideal weight. During that season you can do some, most, or all of the following, as they have been successful.

1. READ, find out what diets work best for people in your demographic, weight your stats with your lifestyle
2. COUNT CALORIES, or POINTS or PORTIONS or WTF ever you need to make sure your calories in are less than your calories out. Simple principle, 3500 calories= 1 lb. It gets more complex when talking about muscle loss vs fat loss...but simply speaking, you have to create a deficit of 3500 calories to make your body want to lose 1 lb of lard off your arse
3. MOVE, ALOT-- you can either hit the gym (which I HIGHLY recommend) and/or create more "burn" by doing things like taking the stairs instead of the elevator or walking an extra mile to class. Please TRY to do some weights....I'll explain more about this in another post. But if you have questions please email me.
4. Get a friend, a coach, a significant other...SOMEONE who can talk you away from the brownie and diet failure.
   

After that, I'm gonna ask you to eat healthy, and monitor your weight, but DITCH the DIET.

Stop LIVING on your diet. Yes, I DO encourage healthy eating as a lifestyle. Yes I DO encourage monitoring your portions, and not letting yourself get caught up in the social culture of eating CRAP. But weight loss diets themselves are supposed to be relatively short, but mildly "painful" experiences, so you can return to normalcy AND sanity, and get on with your life.

Think of it as finals period.
You shouldnt cram the night before (the dietary equivalent would be starving yourself to lose quick weight, possibly damaging your metabolism and hurting yourself)

But you should NOT start studying 5 months in advance, it would be COMPLETELY impractical.
You SHOULD pace yourself, study during reading period (1 week or so before the final) a little daily. After the final though...you should chillax

Take this to heart from someone who dieted down 55 lbs.

It's a diet, not a liveit.


Peace